It’s dead because Microsoft bought them and has made a decision to no longer support the app and instead infuse Sunrise’s brilliance into Outlook, a subpar email app.
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Microsoft is also taking suggestions for new features that users want in Outlook’s calendar with a new “Suggest a Feature” menu in the app’s main settings. They announced what’s going to happen next to the app, or rather what’s not going to happen, for users who’re still in denial and refuse to move on.
Microsoft has unleashed a new update for Outlook on iOS and Android, bringing a handful of quality-of-life improvements to the app’s calendar feature.
The sad news first of course. It now uses Bing to fill in locations for meetings and appointments and you can open maps and directions directly from calendar entires as well. The calendars of the Sunrise app have also stopped updating. So yes, it really is time to officially say goodbye. With the latest addition, Microsoft has put a nail on Sunrise’s coffin.
Even with Sunrise’s best features now available in Microsoft’s mobile Outlook app, it still doesn’t quite feel the same though the experience is getting there.
Microsoft added something known as ‘Interesting Calendar, ‘ which allows users to subscribe to hometown sports team’s calendar and see the events as they automatically pop up.
Other changes to the calendar feature may be familiar to Google Calendar users.
Event Icons are one of the more impressive new features being rolled out today, adding icons to events based on their title so you can see at a glance what you have coming up – typing “coffee”, for instance, will display a little coffee cup next to the event itself in your calendar.
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Microsoft also updated the app with Skype for Business support and redesigned the view for the date and time picker, which lets you find open times in your calendar form within email messages. Are you convinced now that Outlook can be your new calendar?
